More than 1,000 Anchorage homes and businesses were without power Friday evening after an accident at a construction site, authorities said.
Anchorage police responded to reports of “an accident at a construction site” in the area of East 36th Avenue and Lake Otis Parkway shortly after 4:30 p.m., Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Amanda Brimanis said in an email.
“As a result of the accident, power has been interrupted by Chugach Electric,” she wrote.
Chugach Electric Association said in a social media post that, at the request of the Anchorage Fire Department, the company “had to de-energize a circuit after a contractor crew dug into a line.” More than 1,400 members were without power in the Midtown and Tudor areas as of 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to the company’s online outage tracker.
Many traffic lights were out in the area Friday evening. In an alert, Anchorage police reminded drivers to treat blacked-out traffic lights as a stop sign.
In its social media post, Chugach Electric said the outage could last several hours.